[John Cuevas]

My bad, I didn’t copy the entire expression. If you name your sliders “Frequency” & “Amplitude”, you won’t have to pickwhip to them, this will connect right to it.. And just in case I messed up anything else, here’s a project with the wiggle and a camera.

4493_wiggleexpression.aep.zip

freq = effect("Frequency")("Slider");
amp = effect("Amplitude")("Slider");

if (freq.numKeys > 0){
accum = 0;
v0 = freq.valueAtTime(0);
t0 = 0;
i = 1;
while (i <= freq.numKeys){
t = freq.key(i).time;
if (t < time){
accum += (v0 + freq.key(i).value)*(t - t0)/2;
v0 = freq.key(i).value;
t0 = t;
if (i == freq.numKeys){
accum += (time - t0)*v0;
}
}else{
accum += (freq + v0)*(time - t0)/2;
break;
}
i++;
}
}else{
accum = freq*time;
}
wiggle(1,amp,1,.5,accum);

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Here’s the formula I use on my camera taken from an expression originally written by Dan Ebberts. Because AE recalculates expressions on each frame a really smooth ramp up and down for wiggle is actually pretty difficult, the brilliance of this expression though that does exactly that though, create smooth ramps up and down for wiggle.:

Create a null and add 2 sliders and name them Frequency & Amplitude. Add this expression to the position property of your null and then parent the camera position to the null so that the wiggle is added to it. Just keyframe the null and you are all set:

if (freq.numKeys > 0){
accum = 0;
v0 = freq.valueAtTime(0);
t0 = 0;
i = 1;
while (i <= freq.numKeys){
t = freq.key(i).time;
if (t < time){
accum += (v0 + freq.key(i).value)*(t - t0)/2;
v0 = freq.key(i).value;
t0 = t;
if (i == freq.numKeys){
accum += (time - t0)*v0;
}
}else{
accum += (freq + v0)*(time - t0)/2;
break;
}
i++;
}
}else{
accum = freq*time;
}
wiggle(1,amp,1,.5,accum);

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Sorry about that, misunderstood what you were asking for.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

So more like the layer is bending?

There are a few ways to do this in AE, bezier warp, the new bend layers mode in CS6 or the CC Page Turn effect. Sounds like CC Page turn is what you want.

For more complicated bends you would need something like 3D Warps from Zaxwerks.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

There is script that might be of use to you, not terribly expensive, but it might be what you need. Looks like it has a free trial, so you might want to check it out and see how it works with 6.0 before going all in and buying it.

Project Sync

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

I never mind anyone butting in, when the end result is I learn something new. Thanks for the addition, Roland.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Use the text tool to create your text and choose where you want the characters to track from. If you want them to spread from the left you would choose the left justified choice in the paragraph window, spread from the center, you would choose a center justification….

Now that you have setup your text, twirl open the text tool, open the “Animate” flyout and choose tracking. Simply keyframe the tracking amount from a negative number to 0 and your text will start touching and then spread out.

You could also animate the opacity from here so that it fades up as it’s spreading apart.

That’s just the absolute basics of using text animators, for more check out Andrew Davis’s Tutorials on the subject. You can find them here, and he covers text animators from 37 to 45.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

If I read that correctly you want to adjust the axis of the layer. You can do this using the Pan Behind(Anchor Point)tool. Select your layer and press “Y” to activate the tool, now you can move your anchor point.

Note that if you already have position or anchor point keyframes, it’s going to mess them up, so it’s best to set your anchor point first.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Probably the quickest way to bend things would be to use the Distort -> CC Bend(if it’s a real simple bend). For more complicated bends you might want to try Distort -> Bezier Warp.

Lastly you might try a combination of 3d and bezier warp. Take your dollar images and rotate them on the
x-axis to make them flatten out, so it’s like a river. Precomp this river of money layer (shift + cntl + c) and then apply bezier warp to the precomp and bend that to make it seem like a money water fall.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.

[John Cuevas]

Don’t think there is a project timer.

You might want to take a look at Harvest App. We’ve personalized ours to keep track of Avid time, AE time, digitzing…

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.